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I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
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I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.
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I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.
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Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.
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I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic.
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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
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I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.
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My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
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He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.
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There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.
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